A Meissen Silver-Gilt-Mounted Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1723
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10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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A Meissen Silver-Gilt-Mounted Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1723
painted in the Höroldt chinoiserie style, the teabowl with a vignette of a seated figures before a smouldering censer, the saucer with two figures fanning away a stag beetle, both within gilt shaped-quatrefoil cartouches, the edges enclosing Böttger lustre sections, issuing iron-red scrolling foliage shaded with lustre, within borders of gilt scrolls, the back of the teabowl with training flowering prunus above insects, gilt numeral 51., traces of inventory number in black
the saucer 4 7/8 in., 12.4 cm diameter, 2.6 cm. high; the teabowl 4.5 cm. high, 7.4 cm. diameter
Eine Teeschale mit Untertasse, Meissener Porzellan, um 1723
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck St. Annen-Museum, 14 November 1993-31 January 1994.
Museen der Stadt Aachen, Couven Museum, 26 February 1994-30 April 1994.
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellanaus einer Privatsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, 1993, pp. 50-1, no. 36 and front cover for the saucer.
